On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Samuel Flory wrote:
> What is believed to be the current status of the typical mke2fs
> crashes/hangs due to vm issues? I can reliably reproduce the issue on a
> heavily modifed VA kernel based on 2.2.18. Is there a kernel which is
> believed to be a known good kernel? (both 2.2.x and 2.4.x)
I can mke2fs (successfully) on a 270G block device. Yes, of course, I also
get various page allocation failures while this happens but they are not
deadly, i.e. the thing (our volume manager) just retries until it works
and after a while I have a valid (and a very big) ext2 filesystem with 0
processes killed.
The kernel I use is 2.4.2-pre3. The machine has 6G RAM with the 3G given
to kernel virtual. The amount of swap is massive (2G) but it is never
used.
Regards,
Tigran
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